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Metropolitan see Cape Coast, Ghana

Archdiocese of Cape Coast

A Litore Aureo

Metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Church in Ghana, established in 1879 as the Apostolic Prefecture of the Gold Coast and elevated to an archdiocese in 1950. Its cathedral, St. Francis de Sales, was the first Catholic cathedral in Ghana, and the see is led by Archbishop Charles Gabriel Palmer-Buckle.

On the map

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The address the register holds for St. Francis de Sales Cathedral, in Cape Coast, Ghana.

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Established
1879
Catholics
396,292
Priests
170
Territory
9,788 km²

Parishes and churches

33 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.

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The bishop

Archbishop
Charles G. Palmer-Buckle

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The cathedral

St. Francis de Sales Cathedral stands in Cape Coast, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.

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History

Ghana's ecclesiastical province of Cape Coast has as its metropolitan see the Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Coast (Latin: a Litore Aureo).

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